[Greylist-users] HELO

Evan Harris eharris at puremagic.com
Mon Jul 21 12:07:45 PDT 2003


You are probably getting bit by a bug that has been fixed in 0.03.  Check
the changelog.

Evan


On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Alan Batie wrote:

> I've been getting a flood of porn ads leaking through even greylisting
> lately.  They're using my address as both the to/from.  I can't have
> spamassassing block that pattern because of mail from cron jobs, but
> I notice that they're using my hostname on the Received headers too:
>
>     From alan at agora.rdrop.com Sun Jul 20 23:18:39 2003
>     Received: from agora.rdrop.com ([61.100.195.45])
> 	    by agora.rdrop.com (8.12.9/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h6L6IboT006963
> 	    for <alan at agora.rdrop.com>; Sun, 20 Jul 2003 23:18:38 -0700 (PDT)
> 	    (envelope-from alan at agora.rdrop.com)
>     Message-Id: <200307210618.h6L6IboT006963 at agora.rdrop.com>
>     Received: from MIRAE [61.100.195.45] by agora.rdrop.com with MailMXPro(2195.5674);
> 	    Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:19:56 -0600
>     From: "jenny hewit" <alan at agora.rdrop.com>
>     To: <alan at agora.rdrop.com>
>     Subject: Girls On Webcams! (Adults Only)
>
> I think for my hostname to appear on the Received header, it must be the
> name they're using in the HELO, and I'm wondering if you can block a message
> that says its from a localhostname that does not have an A or MX address
> that matches?  Does a milter have access to the presented hostname?
>
> --
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